Man found guilty in rape of woman on train near Washington

Jan. 17, 2018

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Washington man has been found guilty of the rape of a woman attacked on a Metro train in 2016.

The Washington Post reports 41-year-old John Hicks was found guilty by a jury of first-degree rape and first-degree sex offense Tuesday. He'd been accused of raping a 39-year-old woman at knifepoint aboard the moving train in Montgomery County, a Maryland suburb of the capital.

The woman testified she'd fallen asleep aboard at 9 a.m. on a weekday after an overnight nursing shift, alone in a rail car when attacked.

Montgomery State's Attorney John McCarthy says, "It's shocking that someone was bold enough to have done this in broad daylight."